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Power and Electrical Engineering

Russian fuel flows in Jules Verne’s veins

Early this month, the 20-tonne Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) was transferred to the huge fuelling chamber within the giant S5 integration…

Life & Chemistry

Wildebeest or malaria parasite – same rules determine number of offspring

New research published today (15 January) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council…

Environmental Conservation

New Report Shows Europe’s Birds Face Crisis Unless We Tackle Climate Change Challenge

A Climatic Atlas of European Breeding Birds – which maps potential changes in distribution of all of the continent’s regularly occurring nesting birds – shows…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Durham University Drives Cheaper Solar Energy Innovation

The £6.3million PV-21 programme will focus on making thin-film light absorbing cells for solar panels from sustainable and affordable materials.The four-year…

Social Sciences

Watermark Technology Links Burglars to Crime Scenes

Burglars are automatically sprayed with a DNA-style code that lasts for months –linking them directly to a crime scene. The forensic technology is also used to…

Business and Finance

New Research Centre Examines Economic Prosperity Disparities

Economic prosperity in the UK is unevenly distributed. The Centre, which sees a total joint investment of £2.4million over an initial three years, will support…

Health & Medicine

New Hope for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatment Uncovered

People suffering from IBD can experience an array of symptoms ranging from mild discomfort to debilitating disease requiring surgical removal of large parts of…

Information Technology

Spanish Researchers Develop Smart Legislation Search System

The research goal is to develop an intelligent system to search information on legislation concerning intellectual property rights, consumer rights and digital…

Life & Chemistry

TRADD Protein’s Role in Epstein-Barr Virus Signaling

Epstein-Barr virus alters the way cells in the human immune system, called B lymphocytes, behave, transforming them into cancerous cells that survive and…

Studies and Analyses

Columbus and Syphilis: New Study Explores Origins in Europe

Kristin Harper (Emory University, Atlanta, USA) approached this centuries-old debate by using phylogenetics — the study of the evolutionary relatedness between…

Life & Chemistry

New Buffer Maintains pH Stability in Low Temperatures

The research team, headed by chemistry professor Yi Lu, developed a method to formulate a buffer that maintains a desired pH at a range of low temperatures….

Life & Chemistry

Snoozing Worms Unlock Secrets of Sleep Evolution at Penn

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report in this week’s advanced online edition of Nature that the round worm has a sleep-like…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Insights Into High-Temperature Superconductivity

An international research team has discovered that a magnetic field can interact with the electrons in a superconductor in ways never before observed. Andrea…

Environmental Conservation

Mapping Habitat Needs to Restore California Fisher Populations

U.S. Forest Service and U.C. Santa Barbara scientists believe they have identified the habitat needs for Pacific fishers, a rare California mammal that is a…

Earth Sciences

Older Arctic Sea Ice Nearly Gone: Insights from Satellite Data

The team used satellite data going back to 1982 to reconstruct past Arctic sea ice conditions, concluding there has been a nearly complete loss of the oldest,…

Health & Medicine

Eat Less or Exercise More? Both Boost Heart Health

“If individuals want to do something that's good for their heart, then my message to them is lose weight by the method they find most tolerable,” says the…

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